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Flextime: A Viable Solution to Work/Family Conflict?

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Christensen, Kathleen E.; Staines, Graham L. – Journal of Family Issues, 1990

Reviews research regarding advantages and disadvantages of flextime to both employers and employees; evaluates effects of flextime on resolving work/family conflicts; and establishes future programmatic, research, and policy directions regarding flextime. Claims flextime is beneficial in resolving work/family conflicts but not as beneficial as…

Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Problems, Flexible Working Hours, Personnel Policy

Welfare: Issues to Consider in Assessing Proposals for Reform. Briefing Report to the Honorable William V. Roth, Jr., United States Senate.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987

This report provides an overview of research findings on major Federal welfare system design issues. The report is based on: a review of 100 major welfare studies completed since 1975; interviews with Federal, State, and local welfare officials; the results of the General Accounting Office's (GAO) welfare work; and an analysis of the Census…

Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Family Problems, Federal Government, Federal Programs

Keeping Troubled Families Together: Promising Programs and Statewide Reform. Meeting Highlights and Background Briefing Report. Report of a Family Impact Seminar (Washington, D.C., June 8, 1990).

Ooms, Theodora; Beck, Deborah – 1990

This report presents highlights of a seminar which focused on solutions emerging at the local and state level to keeping troubled families together. Comments by these panelists are summarized: Elizabeth Cole, a consultant to many family preservation projects; Kristine Nelson, a researcher on the social work faculty of the University of Iowa; Bill…

Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Services, Counseling Effectiveness, Family Counseling